While PDAs on the market are stagnating and declining on the market, communicator is currently experiencing a boom. For pocket user is fighting more and more firms have acquired new communicator functionality - without the same satellite navigation device, as the beginning hybrid phone and PDA, and has soon will not submit. The hero of today’s review - Fujitsu-Siemens T830 has collected in a virtually all the possibilities that you can see in other communicators. But what has happened as a result?

Complete

In a small carton except the communicator, surfaced cradle, charger and synchronization cable (USB interface), a spare stylus, a wired headset, leather holsters of communicator to wear on your waist, with the disc software, a set of brochures and a voucher to buy several programs at Fujitsu-Siemens website. Especially pleases convenient cradle, which will not solve the operation, and convenient holsters. As we can see, the product package is very rich - practically everything that the user may need to add any particular nothing. However, from expensive communicator is nothing else, and not treacherous.

Appearance

The trunk of the communicator is made of dark grey plastic bezel ends and the function keys light gray. High-quality plastic, the assembly also claims did not arise anywhere nothing loose and not squeak. The device looks massively and firmly - it fit perfectly into the image of a modern businessman. Overall design of communicator line with other modern devices from Fujitsu-Siemens - smooth contours and severity colours. Mass characteristics of the Fujitsu-Siemens T830 are following: 126×64x21 mm, weight 190 g. As we can see, it has turned into not a small apparatus, but will keep it in mind that the T830 - one of the most functional communicators to date. T830 is not bad in the hand, but in the pocket of his jacket to wear uncomfortable - the only acceptable option becomes belt holsters.

At the top of the front panel LED indicator posted 2, which shows the progress of battery and active wireless interfaces. Below is cunning flap indicator, which covers a front VGA camera designed for videoconferencing. In flap has slot, which is hidden voice speaker. At the bottom of the front panel are functional block key QWERTY keyboard and microphone hole. Available two soft keys, keys start and the end of the conversation (the latter also a matter of switching off the menu of the communicator), keyboard shortcut to Calendar and Inbox applications, as well as four- positioned navigational key is to confirm the selection function. Navigation key is well suited for scrolling documents, but in the games is not too convenient that, in fact, it is too important for device-based business audience. QWERTY-keyboard 39 - Key, the size of the buttons on the verge of convenience - people with large fingers, problems will arise. Besides, to write Cyrillic characters sometimes have to starve Fn, which is not very convenient. Notes and SMS keyboard fit well, but to recruit texts is largely unusable. On the right there are the verge of communicator slot SD / MMC, which is supporting SDIO and quick access button FSC Voice Recorder applications. It is heartening that the Fujitsu-Siemens engineers did not follow the fashion at all TransFlash, a normal full-equipped Communicator слотом SD / MMC. On the left are the verge key is the volume (it also allows for scrolling documents) and button quick access applications FSC Camera. At the top are only brink headset connector (3.5 mm, can be used without any headphone adapter) and the stylus slot. Stylus T830 from metal, plastic tips. Convenient feather is very rare among communicators, but the T830 with the stylus is all right. At the bottom brink miniUSB connector device is used for synchronization and charging-connect USB peripherals like USB Flash Drive and USB keyboards.

On the rear panel Communicator is the battery compartment lid, the dynamics of the holes, rubber insert that is not Communicator slide over the table and 2 - megapixel camera with a mirror for self-portrait. Photos with the maximum resolution of 1600 * 1200 average quality - in general they are better than many similar devices. Most likely, this is because the availability of the system autofocussing. Supported regime obtaining a series of images and record video with a resolution of 176 * 144, 3GP formats and the H264. Such videos can be used only for the creation of MMS - more on that they are not suitable. Under the battery compartment lid hiding lithium-polymer battery capacity of 1530 mAh, the reboot button device and slot for a SIM card. Fixing the SIM card is convenient, but to “extract” Sim card battery must be removed. With an average load Fujitsu-Siemens T830 almost 4 days while testing in the network Velcom. C disabled T830 wireless interfaces in the mode of reading books at the lowest level of illumination has holt out for 15 hours - an impressive result. While viewing the film in the program TCPMP Communicator spent 4 hours on one battery charge. Display of the T830 is made on TFT technology, has a resolution of 240 * 240 pixels and can display up to 65,000 colors. Diagonal display is 2.4 inches. Image quality at a high level, the picture is very clear and contrast. On display sun fade, but information from the normally unreadable, especially when put maximum level of illumination. Non-standard display is not too big plus communicator - not all programs can work properly display the permit, particularly in the games.

Iron filling

A brain Fujitsu-Siemens T830 serves ARM processor Intel XScale PXA272 with a frequency of 416 MHz. His Hilda quite sufficient for the vast majority of applications work and play videos, and the majority of games on the T830 is still not working properly because of the non-standard permits the display. The amount of RAM is 64 MB. Volume ROM - 128 Mb, of which 67 MB user accessible. It is not too much, but for programs such amount is adequate, but thanks to a full-slot SD / MMC problems with the purchase memory cards the user does not exist. Communicator is equipped with a Bluetooth module, version 2.0. At joy users stack used Broadcomm version 1.7.1. Supported file transfer, DialUp Networking, exchange business cards, stereo, PAN, and even access to the SIM card. Overall, the special claims to the work of Bluetooth no connection to the computer is stable, BT headset, Jabra BT-150 with the T830 also worked smoothly. GSM module 900/1800/1900 inspires respect. Supported GPRS Class 10 and EDGE. But the main thing is that T830 can work in the networks of the third generation UMTS 2100, allowing the exercise video and work as a high-speed wireless modem. The quality of reception at the secondary level, it generally corresponds to the usual modern mobile phones.

GPS module is based on the chip SirfStar III to be determined in all modern GPS-PDA. Claims GPS does not work when tested with the program Navitel 2.0 Fujitsu-Siemens T830 confidently showed travelled route, only slightly resembling under bridges and other engineering works. The buildings accuracy drops sharply, often Communicator can not extradite coordinates - however, and especially not required. Wi-Fi module supports standard 802.11b / g. Thus, we have the theoretical increase in the speed of Wi-Fi. In practice, it is unclaimed - 11-Mbit device is missing. On the paper Wi-Fi also did not raise claims - Communicator minutes to play the video, broadcast to the desktop successfully went to the Internet through an access point, D-Link. Vibrocall a mean force, it is rather difficult to miss. It should be noted that E-Ten G500 has no infrared – the developers consider this interface to be archaic.

Programmatic part

Fujitsu-Siemens T830 runs under Windows Mobile 2005 Phone Edition 3.0 with a set of updates (particularly supported DirectPush). To date, this is a modern operating system for handheld computers, WM 6.0 yet it is not officially released for communicators. The composition of the OS includes standard applications such as Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, Outlook Mobile, Pocket Internet Explorer and Media Player Mobile 10 - version, Phone application. Additional applications are many. This manager compounds S Connect Mobility E2C, archiving of data backup utility FSC Backup, archiver FSC Zip, java virtual machine JBlend viewer and PDF documents. Most programs intended for Window Mobile 2003/2003SE, worked perfectly and WM2005, and many utilities have already been upgraded and now support this OS. However, it should be borne in mind that the FS T830 is a non-standard screen resolution. Russification input and interface provided LEng program. Synchronization with desktop computer had a Bluetooth and USB interfaces, program Microsoft ActiveSync 4.2. During testing Communicator hovered once, but very high quality - had to do a full reset the device. Overall, some instability in the Communicator there (in particular, there is a utility FSC Speed Menu) - let’s hope that the next firmware is rectified.

Conclusion

Fujitsu-Siemens T830 is a modern keyboard with integrated GPS communicator, working under the administration of Windows Mobile 2005. Of its merits should be noted GPS module, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, USB host, a good performance, hardware keyboard, a great deal of time working offline. Shortcomings also exist. The first non-standard screen is resolution, in the second - the software flaw. Approximate cost Fujitsu-Siemens T830 will be about 800 cu that, in general, good communicator for such functionality.